Main
Océane Cassan
Currently searching for a postdoctoral position
Education
University Claude Bernard (UCBL)
MSc in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Lyon, France
2019 - 2018
National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA)
Engineering degree in Bioinformatics and Modelling
Lyon, France
2019 - 2014
Research Experience
PhD - Institute for Plant Sciences in Montpellier
Predictive biology to learn the regulatory pathways in plants under climate change, SIRENE team
Montpellier, France
2022 - 2019
- Statistical inference of the gene regulatory networks in Arabidopsis thaliana under elevated CO\(_2\) and nutritional limitations. Network reconstruction via ensembles of regression trees or penalized linear regression based using transcriptomic data and regulatory sequences information. Computational and experimental validation of network-derived hypotheses and candidate genes.
- Genome Wide Association studies to identify genetic determinants of mineral status repsonse under elevated CO\(_2\)
- Developement of an interactive suite for transcriptomic analyses and the inference of regulatory networks
6 months research internship - LIRMM, MAB team
Supervised learning to predict chromosomic interactions in the human genome, based on CAGE data and 3C techniques
Montpellier, France
2019
1 month research internship - LIRMM, MAB team
Sparse logistic regression to model transcription factor combinatorics for gene regulation in human
Montpellier, France
2017
Professional Experience
Internship in quantitative biology - Nanolive SA
Development of software tools for the 3D detection and tracking of biological objects in label free images
Lausanne, Switzerland
2018
Teaching Experience
Instructor of R for L3 plant biology students
University of Montpellier, France
2022 - 2021
- Good practices and scientific integrity around data analysis
- Data manipulation and visualisation in R
Instructor of Rmarkdown for M1 data science students
University Paul Valery of Montpellier, France
2022 - 2020
Regulatory network inference for M1 plant biology students
Statistics and regression techniques for network inference.
University of Montpellier, France
2022
Student supervision
N/A
N/A
2021 - 2022
- M2 intern in biostatistics appied to gene regulation and transcriptomics
- M1 data science stduents for an annual project on Genome-Wide-Association studies
Selected Publications
Inferring and Analyzing Gene Regulatory Networks from Multi-Factorial Expression Data: A Complete and Interactive Suite
Cassan, Océane, Sophie Lèbre, and Antoine Martin. 2021 BMC Genomics 22 (1). See article
N/A
2021
Probing Transcription Factor Combinatorics in Different Promoter Classes and in Enhancers
Vandel, Jimmy, Océane Cassan, Sophie Lèbre, Charles-Henri Lecellier, and Laurent Bréhélin. 2019 BMC Genomics 20 (1): 1–19. See article
N/A
2019
Conferences and workshops
Molecular responses of plants facing climate change
Organizer and presenter
Montpellier, France
2022
- Poster presenting genetic determinants to mineral status response under elevated CO2 in Arabidopsis populations
JOBIM
Presenter
Virtual
2021
- Poster presenting the Dashboard for the Inference and Analysis of Networks from Expression data
International Plant Systems Biology
Presenter
Virtual
2021
- Poster presenting Gene Regulatory Network inference of Arabidopsis under eCO2 and nutritional limitations
Netbio
Speaker
Virtual
2020
- Talk presenting the Dashboard for the Inference and Analysis of Networks from Expression data